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Information sheet: historical displays

Historical displays create interest in school anniversary celebrations.

Consider the following:

Display location

accessibility
spaciousness of location
security
supervision

Copies of historical documents

correspondence from community asking for a school
official application form
list of prospective students
first inspector's report
first teacher's letter advising date of opening of school
early school photographs
old scholarship papers

School work and certificates

pupils' exercise books
copybooks
old report cards
swimming certificates, awards for excellence
old uniforms
material contrasting old and new in education
examples of former and current pupils' writing and art work

Further considerations

Material needs to be:

carefully labelled
clearly captioned
relevant to your display
placed in recognisable order (e.g. chronological, thematic etc)
securely displayed
returned soon after the event

School anniversary kits

Library Services has three display kits available for loan. Kits comprise:

old slates, slate pencils, textbooks, badges, inkwells
posters depicting scenes from education long ago
good manners chart
charts related to Queensland’s educational past

There is no charge to borrow a kit. They need to be ordered in advance and either

collected in person
collected by courier or
posted to client

The kits are to be returned as soon as possible after the event. Schools are expected to cover the return postage/delivery of the kit.

Reserving an anniversary kit

Book your anniversary kit by contacting Library Services.

Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre historic kits

This Centre has more extensive historic kits for hire from which schools can recreate an historic classroom. Details are available from Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre.

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Last updated: March 2008